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Research by SAC anthropologists among top science discoveries of 2017

8th January 2018

Research by Dr Matthew Skinner and Professor Tracy Kivell on new fossil finds that helped increase our knowledge of human evolution has been included in Discover magazine's top 100 scientific discoveries of 2017.

The first involved Dr Skinner's contributions to the analysis of teeth of fossil humans discovered in Morocco and Indonesia. The results of analyses by Dr Skinner and his international collaborators pushed back the origins of humans by 100,000 years in Africa and documented the presence of humans in Indonesia much earlier than previously thought.

These findings, along with new genetic studies and other fossil finds by other researchers, were ranked as the #2 most important scientific discovery of 2017 for the way in which they altered our understanding of the human evolutionary story.